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As of June 30, 2016, Darter is no longer an allocatable resource.

In order to facilitate compute intensive research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and its collaborating institutions, NICS has deployed a supercomputer named Darter. Darter is named after a freshwater indigenous fish native to East Tennessee.

Standard file transfer utilities, scp, sftp and rsync are available on all NICS systems. These are good for transferring a few small files, however, we strongly recommend using other transfer tools like gridftp or bbcp that make a better usage of the network bandwidth for larger files.